PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2202, 15 July 1914, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS

Colonel E. Dewing, was ■ n. passenger from London by tho .Arawa yesterday. •"V , ;.:• Mr. and Mrs. Arch. Clark, of South Feathers ton, intend leaving, next week. ; on a Scotland.'Reference to ' the iato Sir -Arthur ' Guinness. Speaker of tho House of Ro- ' prosentativos, was made at the Municipal: A&ociations' Conference yesterday;, lapd.a resolution of condolcnco with his,, ■ relatives was passed. '. , • . • / At yesterday's sitting of the Anglican Synod reference was niaclo to tho . service's."rendered : tp .tho Church iii former years by tho late Rqv. P. LV Canieron, tho following motion;;being' ; passed: "That this Synod desire's to placo on .record'its sense of" the' Services rendered -to :the Church in .former years by the filtc Rev. P. L. Cameron, \ nud to express sympathy with Mrs. ' Cameron and her family ■in their be- ' reavement.'' • . _ •. The death is announced by . <n. Press , " Association telegram from Dannevirke of Mr. John Speedy,. aged 86,/tho. oldi. est settler in Herhertville, where ne'has .: . lived for fifty years/. /Deceased : : came;, . to tjie Dominion when twelve years of i aye, in tho ship Lord William Bentic. , Ho resideel at Hutt and Puketitiri before going-, 'to Herbertville, | • leaves, nine-daiightors 'and ..three -sons: liid wife predeceased, -him four years ' .tlgO. 7- ; ' ■ ' A portrait';of the', late Mr:-' George Laurenspn. M.P. for Lytteltpn, ivas unveiled by; Sir Jpseplf Ward at Lyttelton <111 Monday evening -in 'tho presence ' of about three hundred people! including, : the Hon. It: H. Rhodes, Postmaster en-' eral, and many members of botli Houses of Parliament. - , Among the passengers tq arrive by the - ' Arawa from London yesterday mormng ; was Miss Rene Qiieree, daughter'of Mws. E. :H. Quereb,'of' Wellington, and aii extremely talented pianist. .■ Nearly tHree' years ago Miss Queree went to Europe, to complete her . musical studies'so well : begun in Me)bourno, -and liaviiig met Madame Teresa Carreno here, that distinguished virtuoso offered to teach Miss > - Queree if she went' to. ; Berlin. Such an . opportunity was not to he lost,'and for eighteen months the young-WeHiiigton-iarf, studied under tiie, oyo of the/eminent artist-in Germany, Switzerland and Australia.' Returning to '.England:'spine six . months ago; she was' engaged to, tour England with: Meka, a brilliant' yoi)ng Polish violinist/'and was quite on , ' the threshold. of a prpfessioual. career tt-len the sad . circumstance.! of/ her' v father's death recalled her to New jsea?'. .- land. ' -/-.'. •' . .' ': ;: / -. '-.''' . Mr. J. H.,Pollock,lyho has Jeeri seri : ously ill for some time past, was unable to-attend the Trotting .Conference yesterday. The president of ..the' confer- • once (Mr. John Rbwe) and other mpi)ibers referred to Mr. Pollock's absence, and by resolution extended their .'eymj pathy to htm and his family: ' .